The view from the other shore: An uprooted geography of Europe

This paper explores some of the ways in which we can begin to reconfigure our geographical imaginations of Europe and European identity by looking at Europe from – and through – the Mediterranean, always an integral part of Europe, yet also always its most proximate ‘Other’. Through an examination of some contemporary Euro-Mediterranean mobilities, it challenges prevailing ‘sedentarist’ understandings of European identity and belonging, delimited by certain shores. In so doing, it attempts to disrupt taken for granted connections between bodies, identities and territories, ‘European’ and ‘non-European’ places.